Expanding lands under the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease control areas plan and considering amendments to the 2026-2027 hunting seasons and regulations top the agenda for Thursday’s Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting ... .
Chronic wasting disease surveillance conducted in southwestern Nebraska during the November and December deer seasons detected 197 positive cases in deer ... .
The always fatal cervid disease had not yet been detected in the unit and it is believed it likely spread from a nearby CWD hot spot in Unit 14 ... It has established CWD ManagementZones, which come with ...
Chronic wasting disease was recently detected in a mule deer buck taken by a hunter east of Stanford in HuntingDistrict 419. Multiple rounds of testing confirmed that the deer was positive for CWD. This is the first time CWD ... .
“RT-QuIC has routinely been shown to be orders of magnitude more sensitive than the regulatory tests used for CWD surveillance, and is capable of detecting CWD in animals up to a year before traditional tests.
The always fatal cervid disease had not yet been detected in the unit and it is believed it likely spread from a nearby CWD hot spot in Unit 14 ...Idaho’s first-ever case of the disease was detected at the lower end of Slate Creek in 2021 ... .